Month: March 2018
Laser Beam Wireless Smartphone Chargers: The Next Big Thing
Cellphone chargers have been in existence for years and have grown from one stage to another. It started with the mobile phone traditional charger which had a USB interface, a DC converter, and a charging plug and now has expanded to a close-range inductive wireless charging. The commonly...
Continue ReadingIBM just unveiled the ‘world’s smallest computer’
by Paul Miller @ theverge.com The computer is 1mm x 1mm, smaller than a grain of fancy salt, and apparently costs less than ten cents to manufacture. To be clear, the picture above is a set of 64 motherboards, each of which hold two of this tiny computer. IBM claims the computer has...
Continue ReadingIntroducing Project Fin: a board for fleet owners
Introducing Project Fin, a carrier board designed for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 Lite. It’s a carrier board that can run all the software that the Raspberry Pi can run, hardened for field deployment use cases, and adding some of the things we’ve seen our users needing the...
Continue ReadingPowering Batteries With Protons – A Potential Disruption in the Energy Industry
Climate Change have been a crucial factor taken into consideration by the Australian researchers from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology before creating the first rechargeable proton battery. After considering all available options about cost and availability of the materials needed,...
Continue ReadingProgram Pi, BeagleBone and Other Linux SBCs On The Arduino Create Platform
We have seen the massive ecosystem the Arduino has built and established over the last few years and this has made developing with Arduino quite leisurely. It is way easier to solve a programming issue or hardware issue with Arduino unlike other hardware boards mostly due to its...
Continue ReadingHow to make precision measurements on a nanopower budget
Gen Vansteeg @ ti.com discuss about precision measurement for nanopower scale using OPAMPs. Heightened accuracy and speed in an operational amplifier (op amp) has a direct relationship with the magnitude of its power consumption. Decreasing the current consumption decreases the gain...
Continue ReadingHDC2010 – Low Power Humidity and Temperature Sensor
The HDC2010 is an integrated humidity and temperature sensor that provides high accuracy measurements with very low power consumption, in an ultra-compact WLCSP (Wafer Level Chip Scale Package). The sensing element of the HDC2010 is placed on the bottom part of the device, which makes...
Continue ReadingUSB Adaptive Charger (2.7A per port) with Wattmeter
A 10.8A, 4 port USB charger with a wattmeter and adaptive intelligent charging. It works by taking any DC input between 7V to 17V, from an AC/DC adapter or car adapter. It can be used anywhere with wall outlets, car power ports, lead-acid batteries, DC-output solar panels, and...
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